 58-year-old Seward resident Paul Cottrell, a maintenance worker at Spring Creek, was allegedly smuggling drugs into the facility. According to the Alaska State Trooper Dispatch on the arrest, AST was notified of Cottrell's activities at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 19th. Seward-based troopers began investigating allegations and found that Cottrell was smuggling suboxone strips into the facility and handing them off to an inmate.